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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“SIBYL LEWKNOR, married before 1484 WILLIAM SCOTT, KB., of Scott's Hall (in Smeeth), Kent, Comptroller of the Household for King Henry VII, Knight of the Shire for Kent, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, Marshal of Calais, 1490-1, Sheriff of Kent, 1490-1, 1501-2, 1516-7, son and heir of John Scott, Knt., of Scott's Hall (in Smeeth), Wilderton, and Molash, Kent, Sheriff of Kent, 1460-1, Knight of the Shire for Kent, 1467, Comptroller of the Household for King Edward IV, Governor of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, by Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of William Beaufitz. They had two sons, John, Knt., and Edward, and three daughters, Anne (wife of Edward Boughton, Knt.), Katherine, and Elizabeth. He obtained the manor of Brabourne, Kent in 1495, by the terms of an earlier property settlement dated 1464. He attended the king at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. SIR WILLIAM SCOTT died 24 August 1524, and was buried in the chancel of the church at Brabourne, Kent. He left a will proved 1 Feb. 1524 [sic] (P.C.C. Bodefelde 29). His widow, Sibyl, left a will dated 4 August 1528, proved 14 Jan. 1529 (P.C.C. 1 Jankyn), requesting burial in the monastery of the Whitefriars Observants at Canterbury, Kent.
Hasted Hist. & Top. Survey of Kent 8 (1799): 19. Berry County Gene.: Kent Fams. (1830): 169-171 (Scott ped.). Lower Compendious Hist. of Sussex 1 (1870): 263 (sub Iden: "On the western door-case are angels supporting shields, with the arms of Scott and Lewknor, shewing it to have been built in the reign of Henry VII., when Sir William Scott, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, was husband of Sibylla, daughter of Sir Thomas Lewknor."). Arch. Cantiana 10 (1876): 259-268. Scott Mems. of the Fam. of Scott (1876): 130-145 (error in identification of the parents of Sibyl Lewknor) (he "rose in favour with King Henry VIII, with whom he was frequently in personal attendance..."). Notes & Oueries 7th Ser. 6 (1888): 194. Hunter Familiæ Minorum Gentium 4 (H.S.P. 40) (1896): 1301-1303 (Scott ped.: "Sir William Scott, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, so made by Edward IV. = Sibil, dau. of Sir Tho. Lewkner of Sussex."). C.P. 1461-1467 (1897): 429, 493-494. D.N.B. 51(1897): 106 (biogs. of Sir John Scott and Sir William Scott). List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 68-69. Philipot Vis. of Kent 1619-1621 (H.S.P. 42) (1898): 127-129 (1619 Vis.) (Scott ped.: "Willielmus Scott de Scotts hall, Miles = Sibilla filia Tho : Lewknor Milit.") (Scott arms: [blank], three catherine wheels [blank] within a bordure engralied [blank]). C.P.R 1467-1477 (1900): 351, 633. C.P.R. 1476-1485 (1901): 398, 575. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1 530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 49-50 (1530 Vis.) (Scott ped.: "Sr WM. Scott knight. = Sibell d. of St Tho. Lewknor knight"). C.P.R. 1485-1494 (1914): 323. Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 81 (Extract from a 17th Cent. Notebook: "Sr William Scott who ma: Sylvester da : of Sr Tho : Leuknor."). Sussex Arch. Coils. 68 (1927): 219 (arms of Scott impaling Lewknor found in church of Iden, Sussex). Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-162 (sub Lewknor) (omits parentage of Sibyl Lewknor, wife of William Scott). VCH Sussex 9 (1937): 156. N.EHGR 96 (1942): 20-21. Horrox & Hammond British Lib. Harleian Manuscript 433 3 (1982): 11.â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“THOMAS LEWKNOR, Knt., of Trotton, Barcombe, Bodiam, and Midhurst, Sussex, Tythrop (in Kingsey), Buckinghamshire, Lasham and Lockerley, Hampshire, Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, Chislehampton, Oxfordshire, etc., Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1473-4, Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Constable of Bodiam Castle, Sussex, son and heir, born about 1438-48 (aged variously 30, 34, or 40 in 1478). He married (1st) before 1469 KATHERINE PELHAM, widow of John Bramshott (died 1468), of Bramshott and Gatcombe, Hampshire, Compton, Lordington (in Racton), and Terwick, Sussex, etc. [see BRAMSHOTT 11], and daughter of John Pelham, Knt., of Laughton, Bivelham, Burwash, Crowhurst, etc., Sussex, Chamberlain to Queen Katherine of France (wife of King Henry V of England), by his wife, Joan de Courcy. They had one son, Roger, Knt., and two daughters, Katherine (wife of Richard Knatchbull) and Sibyl. In 1474-5 he indentured himself to serve the king in the planned invasion of France. His wife, Katherine, died in 1481. He was knighted at the Coronation of King Richard III in 1483. He was a leader in the Duke of Buckingham's rising in Kent in Oct. 1483. He was attainted in Feb. 1484, and his lands forfeited. He was denounced as a rebel 24 May 1484. In 1484 he was pardoned and his lands restored. He married (2nd) before 3 Aug. 1486 JANE ___, widow of John Yonge, Knt. (died 1481), Alderman of London. SIR THOMAS LEWKNOR died 20 July 1484. In 1486 his widow, Jane, sold the manor of Honeylands (in Enfield), Middlesex to William Capel, Knt. In the period, 1493-1500, she sued her step-son, Roger Lewknor, Knt., and Richard Lewknor, of Sheffield, his uncle in Chancery regarding the detention of books called ‘liggers' and other books relating to the debts of the said Sir Thomas Lewknor. Jane was living in 1501.
Berry County Gens.: Sussex Fams. (1830): 130 (Lewknor ped.). Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89-102; 68 (1927): 279-281; 69 (1928): 53-70; 70 (1929): 1-7 (Pelham arms: Azure, three pelicans argent). Cooke & Mundy Vis. of Worcester 1569 (H.S.P. 27) (1888): 86-87 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Thomas Leukenor. = (Katherine da. of Sir Jo. Pelham Kt.â€) Lists of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 136. C.P.R. 1479-1485 (1901): 428, 435, 444, 575. English Rpts.: House of Lords 7 (1901): 895-924 (Camoys Peerage). VCH Hampshire 2 (1903): 492; 3 (1908): 165-170; 4 (1911): 81-82, 501; 5 (1912): 247. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Thomas Lewknor knight was of Trotton in com. Sussex. = Katherin d. of Sr John Pelham knight."), 44-45 (Bramshott ped.: "John Bramshott the elder ob. 8 Ed. 4. = Katherin d. of Sr John Pelham ob. 20 E. 4. = Thomas Lewknor 2 husband."). List of Early Chancery Procs. 3 (PRO Lists and Indexes 20) (1906): 436. Whitehead Underchiff of the Isle of Wight, Past & Present (1911): 245. C.C.R. 1485-1494 (1914): 35. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 63-68. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 132-133. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-158 (sub Lewknor). Wedgwood Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 542 (biog. of Thomas Lewknor). C.C.R. 1468-1476 (1953): 442. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 28, 34-35, 92; 6(1) (1980): 215-219; 6(2) (1986): 15; 7 (1940): 81. CCR. 1485-1500 (1955): 35. VCH Oxford 7 (1962): 11-12. VCH Middlesex 5 (1976): 224-229, 282. National Archives, C 1/211/65; C 241/255/7; E 101/72/1/1026 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Child of Thomas Lewknor, Knt., by Katherine Pelham:
i. SIBYL LEWKNOR, married WILLIAM SCOTT, K.B., of Scott's Hall (in Smeeth), Kent [see SCOTT 12].â€
3. http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-23-14.pdf RM: Test(amentu}m d{omi}ne Sibille Scott vidue [f. 32r]
"This is the last will of me, Dame Sibyl Scott, widow, the late wife of Sir William Scott, knight, made and declared the 4th day of August the 20th year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry the 8th: First I bequeath my soul to Almighty God and Blessed Lady Saint Mary and to all the holy company of heaven, and my body to be buried in the church of the Observant Friars of Canterbury;
Item, I bequeath to the high altar of the church of Smeeth 10s for my tithes there negligently forgotten;
Item, I bequeath to the church of Brabourne 20s;
Item, I bequeath to the said church of Observants Friars ten pounds;
Item, I will that mine executors bestow at my burying and month’s mind after their
discretion forty pounds;
Item, I will that my said executors provide an honest secular priest to sing for the soul of the said Sir William Scott, my late husband, whose soul God pardon, and for my soul in the said church of Brabourne by the space of one whole year next after my decease, and he to have for his salary ten marks;
Item, I will and bequeath [f.32v] unto Sir John Scott, mine eldest son, all such plate and utensils of household the which is contained in a note of an indenture drawn by John Hales, one of the Barons of the King’s Exchequer, made between me, the said Dame Sibyl, and Edward Scott, my second son, of the one part, and the said Sir John Scott, knight, of the other part;
Item, I will and bequeath unto Edward Scott, my second son, all such plate and stuff of household and cattle the which I have at the manor of Mote in Sussex; I will and bequeath unto the said Edward four little silver goblets with one cover, one great cup pounced, and two silver pots;
Item, I will that mine executors content and pay unto Alice, Elizabeth, Mary and Sibyl, daughters of the said Sir John Scott, to every of them at the day of their marriages £36 according to the last will of the said Sir William Scott, my said late husband, provided that if it happen that I die before the feast of All Saints next coming, that then mine executors shall content and pay unto two of the said daughters of the said four daughters that shall happen first to be married, to every of the said two daughters £36, and then to be discharged of the payment of the remnant of the said money to the other two daughters;
Item, I will to Frances and Sibyl, daughters of Edward Boughton, to every of them ten pounds to be paid to them at the day of their marriage;
Item, I will to Nicholas Boughton, son and heir of the said Edward, £6 13s 4d;
Item, I will to Alice, the wife of my son, Edward Scott, my chain of gold;
The residue of my goods I will and bequeath to mine executors to order and dispose to the honour of God and to the worship of me and for the wealth of my soul; And I ordain and make of this my present will my faithful and true executors Edward Scott, my said second son, and Walter Hendley, gentleman;
And I ordain and make the said Sir John Scott, knight, my son and heir, supervisor of this my said testament and last will; And I will and bequeath unto the said Sir John Scott, knight, for his pain and diligence about this present will my great gilt pot;
And I will and bequeath unto the said Walter Hendley for his pain £3 6s 8d.
Quartodecimo Die mensis Januarij Anno D{omi}ni Mill{es}imo quingen{tesi}mo vicesimo octauo Coram prefatis Com{m}issariijs in eccl{es}ia Cath{edrali} D{omi}ni Pauli London{iensis} Executores no{m}i{n}at{i} in test{ament}o prescripte D{omi}ne Sibille Scott defuncte recusav{er}unt(?) oneri execuc{ionis} testamenti ip{s}ius defuncte &c Et com{m}issa fuit admi{ni}stracio auct{oritat}e prefatoru{m} R{euerendissi}mor{um} patrum o{mn}i{u}m & sing{u}lorum bonorum Iuriu{m} & creditoru{m} d{i}c{t}e defuncte p{er} viam intestate Ioanni Scott Militi De bene &
fidel{ite}r admi{ni}strand{o} Ac de pleno & fideli In{uenta}rio secundo die post festum s{an}c{t}e gregorij pape prox{imum} futur{um} exhibend{o} Necnon de plano & vero compoto reddend{o} Ad s{anc}ta dei Euangelia Iurat{o} [=On the fourteenth day of the month of January in the year of the Lord the thousand five hundred twenty-eighth before the forenamed Commissioners in the Cathedral Church of St Paul, London, the executors named in the testament of the fore-written Dame Sibyl Scott, deceased, refused the burden of the execution of the testament of the same deceased etc., and administration was granted by the authority of the forenamed Most Reverend Fathers of all & singular the goods, rights & credits of the said deceased by way of an intestacy to John Scott, knight, sworn on the Holy Gospels to well & faithfully administer, and to exhibit a full & faithful inventory on the second day after the feast of Saint Gregory, Pope, next to come, and also to render a plain & true account.]"
4. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“JOHN BRAMSHOTT, Esq., of Bramshott and Gatcombe, Hampshire, Compton, Lordington (in Racton), and Terwick, Sussex, Croucheston, Wiltshire, etc., son and heir. He was a residuary legatee in the 1439 will of his aunt, Joan (Bramshott) Pelham. He married in 1444 (date of fine) KATHERINE PELHAM, daughter of John Pelham, Knt., of Laughton, Bivelham, Burwash, Crowhurst, etc., Sussex, Chamberlain to Queen Katherine of France (wife of King Henry V of England), by his wife, Joan de Courcy. They had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. In 1444 he sued William Fawkener and two others for the manor of Cheshulle, Hampshire. JOHN BRAMSHOTT, Esq., died in 1468. His widow, Katherine, married (2nd) before 1469 (as his 1st wife) THOMAS LEWKNOR, Knt. [see LEWKNOR 16], of Trotton, Midhurst, and Bodiam, Sussex, Lasham and Lockerley, Hampshire, Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, Chisleharnpton, Oxfordshire, etc., Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1473-4, Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Constable of Bodiam Castle, Sussex, son and heir of Roger Lewknor, Knt., of Trotton and Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Sussex, Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, by his 1st wife, Eleanor, daughter of Richard Camoys, Knt. [see LEWKNOR 15 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1438-48 (aged variously 30, 34, or 40 in 1478). They had one son, Roger, Knt., and two daughters, Katherine (wife of Richard Knatchbull) and Sibyl (wife of William Scott, Knt.). His wife, Katherine, died in 1481. He was knighted at the Coronation of King Richard III in 1483. He was a leader in the Duke of Buckingham's rising in Kent in October 1483. He was attainted in Feb. 1484, and his lands forfeited. He was denounced as a rebel 24 May 1484. In 1484 he was pardoned and his lands restored. He married (2nd) before 3 August 1486 JANE ___, widow of John Yonge, Knt. (died 1481), Alderman of London. SIR THOMAS LEWKNOR died 20 July 1484. In the period, 1493-1500, his widow, Jane, sued her step-son, Roger Lewknor, Knt., and Richard Lewknor, of Sheffield, his uncle in Chancery regarding the detention of books called 'liggers' and other books relating to the debts of the said Sir Thomas Lewknor. She was living in 1501.
Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89-102; 68 (1927): 279-281; 69 (1928): 53-70; 70 (1929): 1-7 (Pelham arms: Azure, three pelicans argent). List of Shenffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 137. C.P.R. 1479-1485 (1901): 428, 435, /11,575. List of Early Chancey Procs. 3 (PRO Lists and Indexes 20) (1906): 436. VCH Hampshire 2 (1903): 492; 3(1908): 165-170; 4 (1911): 81-82, 501; 5 (1912): 247. Benolte et al. 'Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Thomas Lewknor knight was of Trotton in com. Sussex. = Katherin d. of Sr John Pelham knight"), 44-45 (Bramshott ped.: "John Bramshott the elder ob. 8 Ed. 4. = Katherin d. of Sr John Pelham ob. 20 E. 4. = Thomas Lewknor 2 husband."). Whitehead Underchiff of the Isle of Wight, Past & Present (1911): 245. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 132-133. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-156. Wedgwood Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 542 (biog. of Thomas Lewknor). VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 81; 4 (1953): 28, 34-35, 92, 113-118; 6(2) (1986): 15. C.C.R. 1468-1476 (1953): 442. C.C.R. 1485-1500 (1955): 35. VCH Oxford 7 (1962): 11-12. VCH Middlesex 5 (1976): 282. Kirby Abs. of Feet of Fines ReL Wiltshire (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 41) (1986): 122. Roskell House of Commons 1386-1421 2 (1992): 335-336 (biog. of William Bramshott). National Archives, C 1/211/65; C 241/255/7 (available at www.catalogue. nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of John Bramshott, by Katherine Pelham:
i. ELIZABETH BRAMSHOTT, married JOHN DUDLEY, Esq., of Atherington (in Climping), Sussex [see COVERT 8].
ii. MARGARET BRAMSHOTT, daughter and co-heiress. She married JOHN PAKENHAM, Knt, of East Court (in Finchampstead), Berkshire, and, in right of his wife, of Gatcombe, Hampshire, Lordington (in Racton), Compton, and Terwick, Sussex, etc., son and heir of Hugh Pakenham, of East Court (in Finchampstead), Berkshire, by Constance, daughter of Richard de la Haye, Knt. They had one son, Edmund, Knt. SIR JOHN PAKENHAM and his wife, Margaret, both died 1 October 1485. Berry County Gens.: Sussex Fams. (1830): 344 (Hussey ped.). Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 44-45 (Bramshott ped.: "Margarett [Bramshott]. = John Pagenham."), 76-77 (Marvyne ped.: "John Pagenham = Margerett or Anne d. & coheire of John Brampshott"). VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 165-170; 5 (1912): 246-249. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 241-247. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 28-30, 91-94, 113-118. Child of Margaret Bramshott, by John Pakenharn, Knt.:
a. EDMUND PAKENHAM, Knt., of Lordington (in Racton), Compton, and Terwick, Sussex, East Court (in Finchampstead), Berkshire, and Gatcombe and Whitwell, Hampshire, born about 1480 (aged 5 in 1485). He married ___ COMPTON, daughter of John Compton, of Hawton, Nottinghamshire. They had two daughters, Constance and Elizabeth (wife of Edmund Mervyn). SIR EDMUND PAKENHAM left a will … [continues]â€
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